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Chasing
Plastic Magazine launches eNews!
Hello all,
Welcome to the first installment of the Chasing Plastic eNews,
a short ultimate newsletter. It will go out roughly once a month,
and will have brief ultimate news like upcoming tournaments
or results, photos of recent events, as well as keep you informed
about happenings with the magazine. As a recipient of CP eNews
your email address and personal information will never be circulated
to other companies, and will be used solely by Chasing Plastic
to keep you informed.
In this issue we've got tourney highlights from Labor Day in
Santa Cruz and Tune-Up in Chicago, we've got details on our
Mexico Vacation Give-away, we have a listing of new products
now available on our web site and we've got a special link to
some hot photos from Worlds that are only available through
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Labour
Day 2002 - Santa Cruz, CA
Foggy mornings, swarming bees
attacking the strawberry jam, women tripling up in shower stalls
and some sweet competition made for a great labour day on the
West Coast.
Perhaps
benefiting from a lighter Sunday schedule, Vancouver's Furious
George cruised to the final while the Santa Barbara Condors
worked hard, narrowly escaping defeat at the hands of Seattle
Sockeye in quarters, then meeting San Francisco Jam in semis.
FG took control, winning 15-11 in a game marked with some
uncharacteristic turnovers by the Condors.
Other news: Condors went 1-2 on Saturday losing to both Jam
and Portland's Axe. Jam's Damien Scott went down with a broken
foot in pool play against Condors and will be in a cast for
about 6 weeks.
The
womens final was played between the 6th and 7th seeds, showing
the parity across the board this season. Colorado's Rare Air
lead most of the way, taking the half 8-4. A relentless Vancouver
Prime fended off 2 game points and scored 3 straight to finish
off the game 15-14, completing the Canadian sweep in mens
and womens.
Other news: After finishing 0-3 on Saturday, Rare Air came
out strong on Sunday pulling off some huge wins, first taking
out top seed Schwa in quarters, then Fury in semis.
Also
pulling out the late game comeback was Seattle's Shazam who
battled back to squash Donner Party from Tahoe's lead to win
the coed division.
Other news: Shazam, Red Fish Blue Fish and Grind were in the
same pool on Saturday each finishing 4-1 making for some very
tight games.
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Subscribe
and Win a Mexico Tourney Vacation
Subscribe to Chasing Plastic
before November 15, 2002 and be entered in a draw to win an
entry to the 3rd Ultimate Fiesta en Pie de La Questa coed
hat tourney.
If you're drawn you'll receive:
Five days/four nights lodging in deluxe accommodations, three
meals a day plus all the beer, wine, and tequila one can consume,
transportation between the hotel, fields and Acapulco, tourney
registration and tourney shirts.
The prize is transferable. The only stipulation is that the
recipient is an ultimate player who will participate in the
hat tournaments.
To subscribe go to: www.chasingplastic.com/subscribe.htm
For
more info on the tourney go to: www.ultiworld.com/fiesta2003
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Tune-Up
2002 - Naperville, IL
Calm
and hot for two busy days, the polo fields outside of Chicago
again hosted the biggest tournament on the continent.
DC’s
Electric Pig met DoG from Boston in the Open final. Pig hounded
DoG from the start, and went up by one break at half. Continuing
to run hard in the latter half they got a couple more breaks
before DoG started a late run at triple game point. It was
not to be, however, as Pig closed it out for the 15-13 win.
Other
news: Valhalla from San Francisco, Atlanta’s Chain, and
Texas Double Wide all played hot ultimate, counting themselves
among the top teams competing, while Minneapolis Sub Zero
put in a sub-standard performance.
Seattle
Riot crushed the rest of the field on the way to the final,
where they met Rare Air from Colorado. Riot came out flat
and was no match for RA’s fiery conviction. A late rally
by Riot was much too little, Rare Air took the win 15-9.
Other
news: Nemesis from Chicago, augmented with some West Coast
players put in a strong showing, while Atlanta’s Ozone
couldn’t get it together and dropped in the Quarters.
Minneapolis’s
Hot Action and Three Martini Lunch met in the Co-ed final.
Tight to the end 3ML took the game 17-15.
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New
Products Now Available Online
Here
are
some new products available at chasingplastic.com
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"Fear
of a Flatball Planet" jersey.
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Worlds
'02 Spectator's Program. |
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"Grit"
photo poster.
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"Flatball
is Fun" jersey now available in a womens cut. |
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Worlds
Photos Preview
Finally, a preview of some of the good stuff
from Worlds. Go to:
www.chasingplastic.com/worlds-02-preview-photos.htm
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